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Deutsche Welle English Service News April 9th, 2001, 16:00 UTC --------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: The Bavarian Connection Innuendo is the order of the day, as Chancellor Gerhard Schr�der picks on opposition candidate Edmund Stoiber for his Bavarian links to debt casualty Leo Kirch. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the Internet address below: http://dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1432_A_493790_1_A,00.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ambush Kills 13 Israeli Soldiers Thirteen Israeli soldiers have been killed during an ambush by Palestinian militants inside the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp. At least seven soldiers were wounded. The casualties, confirmed by Israel's army, represent the heaviest single toll in Israel's 12-day offensive. Most were killed by the collapse of a building, triggered by concealed bombs, according to the news agency AFP. Palestinian losses of the past week in Jenin had been put in excess of 100. Today's ambush coincided with Israeli pullbacks from the cities of Qalqilya and Tulkarm, but also a new raid, on the village of Dura. In Bethlehem, the Israeli siege of Palestinians in the Church of Nativity has entered its second week. Powell "Intends" to Meet Arafat Visiting Cairo, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has said he now "intends" to meet Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, who Israel has kept under siege in Ramallah for ten days. Previously, Powell had said he would only meet Arafat if circumstances permitted. Powell, at a news conference in Cairo, said he was also "looking forward" to talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. His itinerary took him first, though, to Madrid and then Amman, Jordan's capital. A PLO official, Mahmud Abbas, citing U.S. sources on al-Jazeera television, claimed that Powell would meet Arafat in Ramallah itself. Powell is due at talks in Madrid on Wednesday with EU and Russia officials, and U.N. chief Kofi Annan. Holocaust Day Ceremonies Holocaust Day, in memory of the six million Jews murdered by Nazi Germany, has been marked today in Israel; by a march at Auschwitz in Poland; and a rollcall of 56,000 murdered Jewish residents in Berlin. In Israel motorists stopped their cars as air raid sirens sounded, while schools held ceremonies. At Auschwitz, Polish police made extra security checks among 2,500 marchers, mostly young Jews, because of Middle East tensions. Their silent march remembered the 1.1 million murdered at the twin camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. In Berlin, the names of 55,696 Jewish residents murdered half a century ago are being read aloud outside a train station, taking 30 hours. Jiang Begins Trip in Berlin Chinese President Jiang Zemin has begun a five-nation trip in Berlin where human rights in China featured in initial talks with German President Johannes Rau. Jiang, whose officials conceded there were differences of opinion, also met Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Officials for Rau said he had also raised the China's treatment of Christian churches. Outside Rau's office, several dozen protestors held vigils for the Falun Gong movement. Jiang, in turn, spoke of security concerns linked last September's terror attacks in the USA. He cited China's economic upturn and the Chinese-German Transrapid rail project. Ministers signed a statement-of-intent to open a Chinese cultural institute in Berlin and expand the Goethe Institute in Beijing. Funeral for Queen Mother The coffin of Britain's Queen Mother has been driven to Windsor Castle for burial after an elaborate funeral service at Westminster Abbey. An estimated 600,000 mourners lined the route of the cort�ge. Inside the Abbey, a congregation of more than 2,000 had paid tribute, including the royal family, Commonwealth leaders, and kings and queens from seven other countries. The body of the Queen Mother, who died at the age of 101, will rest beside her late husband, King George VI. Afghan Defence Minister Survives Assassination Attempt Afghan Defence Minister Mohammad Fahim has survived an assassination attempt. Fahim was in the eastern city of Jalalabad to try to persuade local farmers to accept cash for not planting opium poppies from which heroin is derived. An official from Afghanistan's interim government said, the bomb was placed in a kiosk in the center of Jalalabad. Four civilians were reportedly killed and another 18 wounded. Sixteen UN Police Hurt in Clash with Kosovo Serbs At least 16 U.N. police have been wounded during a clash with hundreds of Serb protesters in the flashpoint town of Mitrovica in Kosovo. The violence erupted when Serbs started throwing stones at U.N. police who had set up a traffic checkpoint near a river bridge in the ethnically divided town of Serbs and ethnic Albanians. The mood of the crowd grew ugly, after U.N. police arrested one Kosovo Serb among the protesters. Indonesian Court to Conduct Timor Trial An Indonesian court has decided to press ahead with a landmark trial of four middle-ranking military officers and a policeman, charged with failing to give protection to East Timorese citizens during the East Timor ballot in 1999. A separate and more high profile Timor trial involving former Jakarta-appointed police chief General Silaen and ex-East Timor Governor Soares is also under way. The United Nations estimates around 1,000 people were killed by pro-Jakarta militias, many backed by Indonesia's military, before and after the independence vote that ended 24 years of often brutal Indonesian rule. --------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information please turn to our internet website at http://dw-world.de/english Here you'll find out what's happening in Germany, Europe and the rest of the world. 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